Which clinical parameters predict a positive CSF diagnosis of meningitis in a population with high HIV prevalence?

• Principais autores: Will Loughborough (Autor), Louisa Jones (Autor), Michael Abouyannis (Autor), Sharadh Garach (Autor)
• Formato: Livro
• Publicado em: AOSIS, 2014-05-01T00:00:00Z.
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Background. The HIV epidemic has changed the aetiology of meningitis in sub-Saharan Africa, and frontline clinicians are faced with a variety of meningitic presentations. Doctors working in resource-limited settings have the challenge of appropriately selecting patients for lumbar puncture (LP), a p...